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~johano

Ohhh enneagram stuff... interesting but I haven't gotten too deeply into Gurdjieffian matters

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Probably wrote about this already (oh, the indignity of aging-fueled forgetfulness...), but I had this friend in late high school whose dad was big in/on Gurdjieff/Ouspensky notions... had several of the books.

My friend himself seemed like he couldn't be bothered by it much, I imagine for having had to listen to it on a far more regular basis. But I was rather captivated as his dad elucidated.

What I didn't know until years later was the milk dad was drinking has some pretty serious vodka content to it, which accounted for much of the spell-binding glory of his delivery.

But I continued on reading the likes for several years, and I found his dad's accounts plenty accurate/consistent.

If nothing else, it engendered a healthy inner sense of "things might not be at all as they seem/appear", which stoked much investigation/discovery down other paths.